Improvement in manufacturing axes



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jHENRY n. MORRIS, or BALDwINsVLLE, NEW ironicv Letters Patent No. 98,789, dated January 11, 1870.

- IMPR'VEMENT IN MANUFACTURING- AXES.

I, HENRY '1). MORRIS, of Baldwinsville, in the county of Onondaga, and State vof NewYork, have invented certain Improvementsin the Process of Making Axes, of which the following is a specification.

invention consists in certain additional devicesto be nsedin connection with improvements. in machinery for manufacturing axes, for which Letters Patent were granted to me, August 3l, A. D. 1869, and

nu`mberedi94,232, and they embrace an eye-pin, A,

withhandle r, sliding swage-block B,Iand die E, all represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure '.1 is a' side` elevation of the eye-pin and swage-block.

l1`igurev2, a section of same through line a, b. Figure 3 is a plan of one-half5 of a die, for shaping the axe.l p

Figure 4-is a section of same through fg. Like letters refer to like parts in all the representations. v

The peculiar features of the eye-pin consist in being made of such a length and shape 'as to reach through theoye of the axe where the head is being fonned, and serve as a lever, whereby the operator can control the movements of the blank, in the'process of hammering.4

It is provided witha handle, It, as shown at iig. 1, at such an angle to the longitudinal axis of the pin,

as that the pin 'canbc easily turned by the operatorr The sliding swage-block B is formed with a recess or cavity, as indicated by the dotted lines in fig. 1and shown in section at fig.12, to receive the blade of the axewhen the poll or head'is being formed.

Said block is provided with a guide at its base, which vworks ina groove in the anvil, so nthat the block may be `moved backiand forth upon the anvil, and

thereby bring the head of the axe at any desired point underthe hammer.

The axe being mounted upon theeye-pin, and both upon and in the block, as represented in figs. 1 and 2,

. l The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

it is evident that it .can be tilted, and turned, and

moved backward and forward under the hammer, at the will or pleasure of the operator, so as `to nicely round the poll or head, according to any desired pat-` tern.

It sometimes happens, the blanks are not suliciently wide just below the inner edge of the eye, or at the point cl, iig. l consequently, I have provided another set of dies, one-ha1f of which is shownat E,`iigs, 3 and 4. l Said dies are constructed exactly to correspond with the degree of' finish-already accomplished, the anges' uponl the side of the die, having the metal cut away, so that the eyepin can be used as the guiding-agent, and with the' addition of a boss or raised point, as shown at E, figs. 3 and 4; and whenever the point just mentioned requires swaging or expanding, the blank or axe is placed `in said dies,` and the two bosses or raised projections F, spread the metal as desired, by a blow or two fronrthe 'hammer'.

The projection of the eye-pin beyond the edges of the axe, so as to bear upon the portions of the dies or swage-blocks, as described, acting as a lever upon them, as fulcra, and the'turning-handle h, all cornbined, assist very greatly in the process of hammering axes.

Having thus described my invention,

l.l The eye-pin A, withahaudle,'h, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.'

2. The sliding swage-'block B, provided with a cavity to receive the axe-blade, and a guide to control it npon the anvil, substantially asdescribed.

3. The dieE, provided with the boss F, substan.-

tial] y as described, and for the purposes set forth.

' HENRY D. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

W. F. MORRIS, .FRANK SEARS. 

